Pseudochrysis asiatica Trautmann, 1928

Pseudochrysis asiatica Trautmann, 1928 , stat. resurr. and stat. nov.

( Figs 8A–F View FIGURE 8 )

Pseudochrysis incrassata var. asiatica Trautmann, 1928: 30 . Lectotype ♂ designated by Kimsey & Bohart (1991: 547) [not lectotype ♂ designated by Kimsey 1986]; Uzbekistan: Samarkand (ZMB, examined).

Material examined. Uzbekistan: ♂: Tsbupan Ata [locality unknown] Samarkand Centralasien, incrassata Spin. var. nov. asiatica Tr. , Type!, Lectotypus Spinolia incrassata asiatica Trautmann <handwritten by Kimsey> ( ZMB); 2♂, 4 km NNE of Uchkulach, 40°33′40′′N 67°22′01′′E, on Limonium otolepis , 26.V.2023, leg. A. Fateryga ( ZISP / PRC).

Remarks. Psedudochrysis asiatica was described by Trautmann (1928) as a variety of Pseudochrysis incrassata ( Spinola, 1838) . Trautmann’s concept of Ps. incrassata was very broad (see Trautmann 1927), as he considered all species described with the same colour pattern to be varieties of Ps. incrassata (e.g., Ps. humboldti ( Dahlbom, 1845) ; Ps. gratiosa Mocsáry, 1889 ; Ps. fahringeri Trautmann, 1926 ). Ps. asiatica is not closely related to Ps. incrassata but rather to Ps. humboldti due to its body sculpture with large punctures. In fact, it can be immediately separated from other Asian species ( Ps. incrassata , Ps. fahringeri and Ps. gengiskhan Rosa in Rosa et al. 2017c, see Rosa et al. 2017c: figs 2C–F, 5–8) by its large and sparse body punctures and shorter third tergum (in comparison to Ps. fahringeri ). Ps. asiatica is separated from the similar Ps. humboldti (see photos of the type in Rosa & Vårdal 2015: fig. 25) by its larger, more widely spaced punctures, leaving broad, polished interspaces on mesosoma and metasoma ( Figs 8C, D View FIGURE 8 ), and longer malar space, 0.7 MOD ( Fig. 8B View FIGURE 8 ), while in Ps. humboldti the punctures are smaller and denser, without broad polished interspaces, and the malar space is shorter (<0.5 MOD).

In Kimsey & Bohart (1991), this taxon was listed as a synonym of Ps. incrassata . We hereby resurrect it to species rank, Pseudochrysis asiatica Trautmann, 1928 , stat. resurr. and stat. nov.

Kimsey & Bohart (1991) reported a lectotype designated by Kimsey (1986). However, no lectotype was designated in that publication; therefore, we consider the lectotype designation to have ben made by Kimsey & Bohart (1991), following ICZN (1999) Art. 74.5. The lectotype in ZMB was examined ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 ). Distribution. Uzbekistan ( Trautmann 1928).